Statii Reviews

I like the way i can almost tailor statii to how i want it to work for my business.its an all round system that does everything i need it to do

occasionally glitches and changes things like mark up and margins

Stuart, appreciate you taking the time to write a review.

Sorry, can't recall a single instance when I thought 'this is pretty genius, it will make my life so much easier'

Interface - non intuitive, forms difficult to fill, text editing in those small text boxes Search function - useless for actually searching for something unless you know what it is Need to open 50 tabs to do something Clicking often does nothing, sometimes need to click 3 times for it to register Obvious fields don't automatically fill (like date with todays date, operator with my credetntials, etc.)

Dear Anon. It's a real shame you haven't put your contact details on this review as we would have welcomed the opportunity to discuss your negative comments.

Its functionality and ease of use. It has an easy to use interface.

It would be nice if we could copy a sales order instead of having to copy the ENQ first.

Thanks for the feedback Gavin. We will explore your idea for copying a Sales Order, you never know it 'may' end up in revamp expected the end of this year!

I find statii very user friendly and picked it fairly easily. The dashboard allows you to access the area you require in order to find out relevant information, i.e. the status of a current order.

I would like to see an importing tool such as excel data, as sometimes there are a number of lines for me to input and can be very time consuming.

Tal, send our office a copy of the import you require pulling into system and a brief description of how it would work and we will take a look at what is involved. Importing data isn't that straight forward and can sometimes create more problems than it solves. Good to hear you are getting benefit from the system and thank for the feedback.

programme good for linking and tracking enquires through to delivery

It's not good with tracking potential customers, it would be nice to have a separate area that could be tracked and sent emails as reminders to follow up. Currency is my biggest issue why should there be an extra cost for a DOLLAR sing?

Steve, thanks for your feedback. We appreciate your comment on currency but its not just a $ icon, the system does calculations when multi currency feature is enabled. There was a cost to develop this feature as well as clients needing support on this topic, which is why it's one of the few things we charge additionally for. If there was no additional charge for clients who used it we would have to increase the cost of the base package for everyone. The diary feature will set reminders for users to chase quotes etc, feel free to contact our office if you want us to talk through this.

Easy to use, customer friendly interface customer service always go the extra mile to help out / give advice able to customise reports etc

- Having to create separate delivery notes for one customer when the jobs span over multiple sales orders. Sometimes we make a delivery and have 10 notes to sign! - Have to pay extra for separate currencies. - Shopfloor management software isnt 100% there yet, isn't visual enough for us to convert from Microsoft project. Currently input via the task sheet and manage the production in gant chart view. - Would be nice to have a separate section for "leads" where you can add contacts, raise enquires and leave notes. When the lead places a physical P.O this can then be converted into a customer. Currently store all out leads on excel as we don't want to fill out customer list we nonspending leads.

Scott appreciate your feedback. The delivery note issue has been mentioned before but we feel this is better than having a delivery note with dozens of items listed on a delivery note not relevant to a particular job. We would be interested to hear how we could improve the Scheduling. On the leads subject you can set up a 'Prospect' and quote for them, if this turns into a job then it converts the prospect into an 'Open' customer. You can filter in or out all your prospects on the customer screen.

The ease of use and traceability of data. The way in which the dashboards have been set up makes it easy to navigate through the software for both experienced and novice users.

The ability to remove items from it, especially as an administrator and initial user of the software, mistakes were made whilst finding my feet. It would have been nice to be able to clear this "noise" from the database before going live with the software.

We agree Clint our support resources such as 'how to' videos etc could be improved and we do plan to do this, but many of our clients prefer the option to pick up the phone share the screen and talk through the issue. Maybe the solution is to set up a distributor or reseller in South Africa to service your Country!!

Generating notes and invoices now takes seconds instead of typing longhand Keeping track of WIP and invoicing is very easy Purchasing and goods inwards now instantly trackable Having a full database of jobs to call back on speeds up pricing and production

Changing items on the system once they have been processed is quite long winded

Chris we are always trying to improve our system so any more detail on how we could make changing items would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the taking the time to offer this feedback.

simple to set up and manage cheep to rum and maintain good support

not easy to correct errors or anomalies, lacks some basic features. training videos are updated but then there's no access to earlier videos. no ability to switch features on or off like data stamp.

Dean, we agree we could be better at communicating to clients regarding changes and absolutley plan to improve this later this year with an inbuilt messaging system into the dashboard.

Easy to Quote and review part and pricing

Remembering were to edit things in admin

Thanks for the review Jason. The shop floor data capture has been designed to be super simple for the shop floor personnel to speed up the entry and minimise errors. But we do take on your feedback. You can actually search for a WO using the SFDC tablets, showing drawings etc on a 7" screen could potentially cause a mistake.

Ability to access all the information I need on previous jobs in one location. Able to use search filters to target in on what I need. Able to do everything from one software and track orders. Ability to have system grow and change it to sort me and my needs.

Sometimes crashes with no warning and can lag. Moving from paper system to digital system took awhile to get use too. Not so forgiving, if you make a mistake and action an order by accident there is no undo button. CRTL + C does not work.

Danny, you're not the first person to mention an Undo feature, so watch this space!!

Very easy to use, Set up was fully supported by [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] from Statii. Starting to see the benefits after just a few months. Brings new transparency to our costing system

Nothing! we like the way it has been thought out, so simple to use

Thanks for taking the time to review our software Nick, its important for us to show potential clients what real users think of our product and company so appreciate your time in doing this.

Statii has been designed by guys that get small manufacturing businesses, particularly like ours. Around 20 employees where everyone does a bit of everything and historically very little information is captured about jobs. Statii makes the whole process of quoting, ordering, delivering, invoicing and analyzing simple and for a very reasonable price. We havent delved to deep into the advanced features that Statii offers but the thing we have found most useful is the ease with which you can see what jobs need doing that day/week and whats late. we do very small production runs and therefore have a very high number of jobs passing through the factory at anyone time so there is a lot to keep track of and statii copes with this with ease

It can be a little buggy, but it is continually being developed and the customer support is outstanding with any issues that have arisen being dealt with very quickly

Many thanks for the feedback Phil. Any bugs you find please report at the time so we can find out the cause and get them resolved.

Statii has enabled us complete control of traceability for all projects, from initial enquire to paid invoice. This has saved time from all aspects of running the day to day business. We found it very easy to navigate through the system with little training. Being able to compare actual costs back to quotes is definitely a benefit to any business and for us has been key to making changes at the quote stage.

On a few occasions the system can run slowly. Once you've added a file to Statii you're unable to make changes unless the file is resaved out of statii and loaded back.

Thanks for the detailed reveiw Julie, we appreciate you taking the time out to give us valuable feedback. On your comments, sometimes if the internet is slow it can impact on the speed of the system but hopefully this isn't too often. Yes if the file attached is then amended for example in your CAD package you will need to upload the latest version of that drawing.

I love most about statii the colour code for different departments and the rounded buttons which gives it a friendly look. The system is easy to use and very clear as the outstanding flags up as red. Additionally, the support which I have constantly over the phone makes it so easy to contact them if a problem arises right away it can be sorted.

The error codes which come up sometimes, however they are always dealt with quickly and efficiently.

Thanks for your feedback Katy. Good to hear the system is working well for you particularly after your previous bad experience with another system. Yes the errors that pop up can be annoying but as the product is evolving constantly its very difficult to find all of these when testing. Its unfortunate when clients find the odd one of these but they generally advise us so we can put them right promptly.

It has the most important features for a job shop. Also when we have encountered problems, Statii has either explained the work around or changed the software quickly. The shop floor data collection is very effective.

A small irritant, when you want to reuse a part while costing, the field is so small you cannot find the correct part if many start with a similar name. The field length for the display should be the same as the field for the part description.

Thanks for the glowing review Preston. I will contact you under separate cover to discuss your comment about the field size but this may be solved by dragging the column width. Great to hear that Statii has had a direct impact on improving your internal shop procedures.

Inventory is very good. Checking in for works orders and calculating hours is very good.

Many clicks that could be skipped. We make our job calculation first in excel (based on price list); then we fill it in to Enquiry just to make a Works Order. It is a little time consuming, but we have found no way yet to do it more efficiently.

Firstly Annika, thankyou for taking the time out to write a review. We're just pleased your English is better than our Estonian. We would welcome any suggestions you may have to reduce the number of clicks. There have been a number of changes recently to speed things up, which we can through if you wish.

The Quotation section because that's where I spend most of my day.

Having to load up the Data initially.

Thank you Tadhg for taking the time out to give us a review. Much appreciated. Really pleased that Statii is working well for you and hope it is now proving of great value for your business.

Well thought out workflow and organisation. Responsive support

Can be unforgiving and forces us to follow the system.

Thanks for the feedback Paul. Hope you're seeing the benefits of the automatically created retention and pre-payment (deposit) invoices. Hope you agree forcing correct data entry does pay off in the long term.

How easy it is if jobs are repetitive to search for price history. It makes billing customer less time consuming as everything is linked.

If you make a mistake it can be confusing to make changes to correct.

Thanks for your review Kevin. The issue you mention about making mistakes is understandable and the fact these rarely occur means when it happens for a second time, it was so long ago since last time that you've forgotten how to 'undo it' As ever call us and we will happily talk you through any problems.

Ease of use, customer service and aesthetically pleasing

Cost to medium sized business might need to be addressed

Anthony, thanks for taking the time to write a review. We think the cost of Statii is very competitive and comparable to other systems where charged a one off price plus annual support. Our cloud model is far more flexible as it is regularly updated and offers a low cost entry point. We would be happy to talk to you on this point if you wish.

Easy to add information as you go. Very clear and precise layout. Also you can use the software quickly and easily if you are a small firm, or if your company and staff base is larger, the whole system can be utilised to a much higher level.

We've had a couple of days of downtime due to system upgrades but no real downsides as the staff are always on hand to explain any problems.

Glen, firstly our apologies for the couple of times the server has been down. The last time the infrastructure was really stretched was 'Black Friday' Christmas 2014, but I think that the entire UK ground to a halt online that day We are constantly looking at improving up time and issues such as mirroring back ups. Thanks for the review, these are valuable to our prospect clients.

User friendly, flexible, ease of implementation.

Upon request, does not poor me a glass of Rioja!................yet!!!!

Thanks Dean.You and your Company have been instrumental in how Statii has developed over the last few years. Cavalier have consistently tested the system to its limited, which has ultimately been good to accelerate the development of the product. Thank you to everyone at Cavalier and if any company out there are looking for some high quality sheetmetal work contact Dean.

It's easy to use and gives a great overview of what's going on. Its easy to look up information as customers telephone in and their job is easily traced. Click a button you can see who has worked on or working on any particular project. So if accountability and traceability are important this system is great.

It requires all employee's on board, if not it gets messy and you end up chasing them so more work for office staff if they don't comply :-(. works very well if your company makes standard items, we're a Fabrication company if the workers go off piste and use material that was different to that which is specified you are at their mercy if they tell you or not, this however not a software issue , just an annoyance.

Michelle, thanks for your comments. As you will know this isn't a problem exclusive to your company regarding getting employees on-board, if we could solve that we'd be on a beach in the Caribbean. We have made the way the shop floor enter data to be as simple as possible, but if you have any ideas to help with this they would be welcome.

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Thank you for your feedback Phil. Its good that you identify that for a successful implementation some of the things you have done for years sometimes need to be done slightly differently, unless of you have $$billions$$ !!! I have made a note of resolving the bug you have found and will keep you posted on how and when it will be solved. Unfortunately bugs and software come in hand in hand - even for Microsoft.